21. Cold Water and a run in the fresh air before breakfast.
Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife (1833)
Last week:
This week is a little different — I am not writing about a book I regularly lecture on. I am moving, and my books are in absurd piles under the stairs (including, I hope, The Awakening, which I had planned to write about this week). At the top of one of these piles, I uncovered a volume, whose full title is: THE AMERICAN FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE. DED…
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